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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Inspired by my Dino-Mite post, Tara Cox of Flying Penguin Artworks made me a fantastic "Cake Rex" illustration. I liked it so much that I asked her if I could share it with all of you on a t-shirt, and she graciously agreed. Check it out:

This next one is the work of Maree Adams of Work at Home Designs. Maree is a hugely talented and extremely patient individual, as she's been working with me on this illustration since well before we even began offering shirts here on Wrecks:At one time I was thinking of making this guy the site's logo. That's still up in the air for now, but in the mean time I really wanted to share Maree's work with all of you. So, naturally, I stuck it on a shirt:

Like all shirts on Zazzle, you can get these in men's or kids' styles as well as the women's ones shown. You can also customize colors and even the graphic's size. Check out the other styles available in the Cake Wrecks Zazzle store here.

And as always, send me your shirt graphics! If I use them I'll link to your store or site here on the blog.

The baby on a carrot reminds me of those old religious illustrations of incubi and succubi... -Shudder.- If you've never seen a nun riding on a flying hoohoodilly, check out Brian's Page of Antique Weirdness. It's... an experience.

The Mohawk Baby cake rivals the fireman cake in "Am I the only one who thinks this thing looks like a wang?" wreckiness.

Not that it's a bad drawing. It's a very good quality drawing. But the fact that it is a nude baby riding a large phallic object, coupled with the placement of the reins and the position of the carrot... it's not very subtle.

I personally would try giving the baby a diaper, that might break the illusion that the carrot is... "attached to the baby".

What is the DEAL with those babies? They'd looked ever-so- vaguely familiar to me (for a while now) until I realized that they remind me of the old ( probably-before-anyone-else-on-here's-time) Kewpie dolls. Kewpies were naked, too, and had little wisps of hair on the tops of their heads. The wisps did NOT look anything like Mohawks, but maybe that general theme was mutated in Japan or China along the way.Biggest difference between Kewpies and these stu-pies: Kewpies were magic and legendary, like elves. The original Kewpies had tiny green wings (molded of the same hard stuff the bodies were made of, not feathers) on their shoulder blades.The Carrot Kids are just goofy, but I do wonder now if they had their roots in Kewpieland...

I'm not sure, if it's the phallic carrot that made me see this, but does the baby's Mohawk look like a fresh bikini wax to anyone else??

Think I'll have to pass on this one. If the babies actually looked like Kewpie dolls like the ones on the cake did...then maybe. But not looking like some chick's nether region! Especially with how phallic the carrots look.

I'm sorry, but I also get the firehose wibes from that baby. It is very cute and I like the idea though! Maybe the carrot can be adjusted just a bit? I think it's the angle of the carrot and the position of the reigns that does it.

The baby with sexual imagery makes no sense at all to me. I don't get how it has anything to do with this site. (Maybe I should be glad that I don't get it.... I wonder if I might not want to "get it.")

Anyway I'd say "no go" on the male carrot baby for a logo or for this site. I don't think it's going to communicate anything useful about your blog's content or say anything about why people would want to visit your site.

Too bad they're already printed... it would look better if the reins were fed through the bottom of his grasp, with the tail ends coming out the top. I train horses and design, which is why it caught my eye. One of those stupid little details people who don't ride would never notice, but those who do can't get past!

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